The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments

"The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments" by Robert P. Multhauf explores the long history of weather instruments that record data on their own, a change that greatly helped weather science. The book shows how organized weather stations that started in the 1860s helped make these instruments useful. Multhauf tells the story of how people first wrote down weather data by hand, then moved to automatic recording systems, pointing out important people like Galileo and Robert Hooke who first came up with the ideas for these devices. The narrative explains different inventions over time, discussing how instruments like the barometer and thermometer became more complex. Multhauf also explains how technology like photography and electromagnetism made weather measurements more reliable, leading to the modern instruments weather people use now.